http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre Latest news from the Sinn Féin Assembly Election website Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000 en http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3481 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3481 Sinn Féin’s Assembly team in the north today held a planning day in Gulladuff, County Derry. Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3482 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3482 European Parliament Climate Change Committee and Environment Committee member Bairbre de Brún MEP has branded as “disgraceful” Environment Minister Sammy Wilson’s suggestion that the debate on whether humans have contributed to climate change is overdue. Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3483 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3483 Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP MLA has tonight expressed his amazement at comments by the SDLP leader Mark Durkan that power sharing arrangements in Stormont should be scrapped. Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3478 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3478 Sinn Féin MEP and former executive Health Minister Bairbre de Brún has today called for greater EU support for mental health promotion. Ms de Brun called on the European Commission and governments across Europe to place a much greater focus on tackling the problem of mental ill-health across Europe. Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3479 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3479 Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún has called for action in support of Palestinian political prisoners being held by Israel as the European Parliament accepted a resolution co-signed by the Sinn Féin MEP on the plight of Palestinian prisoners Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3480 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3480 Officials from the Department of Employment and Learning (DEL) are to be grilled over a tendering decision which could cost up to 100 jobs in Derry, Foyle Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson has said. Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3475 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3475 Sinn Féin West Tyrone MP MLA Pat Doherty has called upon health authorities to provide guarantees that ‘Out of Hours’ provision in Strabane will be retained as concern mounts that moves are afoot to transfer this vital from the local Health and Social Care Centre in the town to a new centre at Altnagelvin in Derry. Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3472 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3472 Sinn Féin Planning Spokesperson, Cathal Boylan MLA has called on the Environment Minister Sammy Wilson to intervene after discovering that money, time and energy is being wasted by planners working on plans for local councils that will become redundant when the new councils come into existence in 3 years. Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3473 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3473 Sinn Féin Newry and Mourne Councillor Pat McGinn has said that An Bord Pleanála must allow the opportunity for the council to make a submission about the proposed combined heat and power plant and ash landfill in County Meath. Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3474 http://www.sinnfeinassembly.com/en/press-centre/entry/3474 Bairbre de Brún MEP has signed up to a campaign for decent work and underlined Sinn Féin's support for the elimination of poverty, saying that "one of the best ways to improve the lives of men and women is to ensure that people have access to stable and quality employment, social protection and rights in the workplace". Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400